MUSIC INDUSTRY: Sonny Stitt, Shirley Scott and Walter Bishop Jr.

Baltimore’s Left Bank Jazz Society was formed in 1964. It’s claim to fame was promoting more than 800 jazz concerts at the city’s Famous Ballroom at 1717 North Charles Street. Nearly every major jazz artist who came through the city was booked by the Society into the Ballroom, its interior modeled after New York’s Roseland Ballroom…